Why the future of economics and economic development must be feminist. 

Objective

This side-event will gather a panel of feminist economists to reflect on how can insights from feminist economics inform policies  and contribute to the realization of women’s social and economic rights?

Background/motivation
The distribution of resources remains gendered and processes of change, including economic crises, neoliberal reforms, welfare state retrenchment  and globalization, have huge gendered impacts.

Today feminist economics has become an academic field of its own, which is an important source of theory, methods, tools and empirical evidence, necessary for policies and models to assure ending the economic discrimination against women.

Speakers

Edith Kuiper, Economics Department & Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
State University of New York at New Paltz:
Women and Gender are Core to the Field

Marilyn Power, Sarah Lawrence University
Social provisioning as a starting point for feminist economics

Jennifer Olmsted, Dept of Economics and Director of Middle East studies, Drew University, Madison, NJ, USA.
Challenging the Humanitarian/Development Divide Through a Feminist Economics Lens

Tulay Atay Avsar-Ana, Anadolu University, Turkey
-Title: To be confirmed

Margunn Bjørnholt, Policy and Social Research AS:
New advances, new policies: theory, activism and policynaking

Much to the regret of the Union of Kuwaiti Women and IAW as a whole the International Meeting cannot be held  in Kuwait. The situation in the region is too unstable.

Instead the meeting will be held in Paris

The International Meeting is the meeting where Presidents of the member organizations of IAW meet with members of the Board to exchange views, plan policies and make decisions for Congress in 2016. 

This International Meeting will also include a seminar

All members of IAW are welcome to attend the meeting. We look forward to getting the advice and input from any member who wishes to contribute.